Developing a Growth Mindset with Positive Self-Talk

This poster is a perfect reference tool for students who struggle with negative self-talk. We’ve all heard ‘I can’t do it’, and ‘This is too hard’ plenty of times and this poster aims to reframe these fixed mindset examples into growth mindset opportunities. Positive self-talk is an important skill for young learners to develop, as it promotes a healthy self-concept and resilience.

Examples of growth mindset language are positive and open, and include:

• This may take some more time and effort from me.
• I need to go back and look at what I’m missing.
• I can always improve, so what can I do to make this better?

The poster also includes an example of ‘too easy’ talk where students might rush through work if they think a task is too easy.

Ways to Use a Growth Mindset Poster

This poster can be more than ‘just a poster’ for your classroom. Why not try one of these ideas:

• Print the poster and display it in a prominent place in your classroom for students to reference when doing independent work.
• Print several copies of the poster and slip each one inside a dry-erase sleeve to have on hand when working in small groups.
• Print on a piece of cardstock and place it on a binder ring. Hang it up in a position where students can access it, such as in learning centers/stations, near your work turn-in station, etc.
• Project on the screen at the front of the classroom when discussing growth mindset as part of your social-emotional learning lesson.

Download Now and Encourage Positivity!

This resource downloads as a PDF and contains two different characters to choose from.

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Growth and Fixed Mindset Poster

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Growth Mindset Game Show Interactive Activity

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